Re: xrc Fonts / resizing - Mailing list pgadmin-hackers

Hi

please consider moving to sizers sooner or later, because even dialog units
will fail among systems where certain controls have a different layout
proportions, eg notebook tabs under OSX. Using sizers will also allow us in
the future to embed the default layouting guidelines of a platform.

Thanks,

Stefan

> -----Original Message-----
> From: pgadmin-hackers-owner@postgresql.org
> [mailto:pgadmin-hackers-owner@postgresql.org] On Behalf Of
> Andreas Pflug
> Sent: Montag, 29. September 2003 09:28
> To: Mark A. Taff
> Cc: pgadmin-hackers
> Subject: [pgadmin-hackers] xrc Fonts / resizing
>
> This is moved from pgadmin-support to hackers.
>
> Mark A. Taff wrote:
>
> >Andreas, are you talking about something like wxMatrixSizer
> as described at:
> >
> >http://wxworkshop.sourceforge.net/matrixx/default.html
> >
> No. In fact, this is what I want to avoid technically and by
> it's bad look. The last example is just worse case for me.
>
> >
> >I can appreciate that you want this fixed The Right Way(tm).
>  I am the
> >same way when it comes to stuff I do.  And I can certainly
> appreciate
> >the beauty of having wxWindows automatically resize and re-layout
> >dialogs based on font properties.  However, I am in the
> position where
> >I _have_ to change all the .xrc files to make pgadmin3
> usable on my machine.
> >
> >Do you have another solution to making the dialogs usable on
> my machine
> >other than rewriting the .xrc files?  I've been at this for
> a month of
> >my spare time (granted, my spare time is rather limited),
> and I haven't
> >come across any other workable solutions.
> >
> I've been investigating a little, and what's coming is this:
>
> The dialogs *need* some redesign, because currently they are
> designed in pixels, while they should be designed in dialog
> units. Originally, I was quite sure we already did, but
> unfortunately we failed.
>
> Redesigning means recalculating all sizes and positions, and
> adding a 'd'.
> All widths have to be multiplied by 4/6, and all heights by
> 8/13, thus 200x20 would become 133,12d We could write a
> little program to recalculate all dialogs, unfortunately the
> vertical current spacing of 25 (sometimes 20) would lead to
> uneven spacing for rounding reasons, so to get it really nice
> all vertical positions need manual correction.
>
> New design guides will have the following values:
> First control at (5, 5), vertical spacing 15 for normal
> controls, 12 if checkboxes, statics need 2 extra vertical dlg units.
> Standard text control size is 133, 12
> Standard button size (ok, cancel) is 46,12
>
> I'll patch wx to obey the desktop setting for fonts, and the
> dialogs will redesign according to the font automatically then.
>
> Regards,
> Andreas
>
>
>
> ---------------------------(end of
> broadcast)---------------------------
> TIP 8: explain analyze is your friend
>